September 29, 2006
What Do You Get Your Boss on Boss Day?
On October 26, 2006, it will be “Boss Day” once again.
It will be a day when over 50 million professional workers will forget completely that it is Boss Day. 40 million of them have no clue that there is a day called Boss Day.
Amazingly, I went through 15 years of my management career before discovering this special day. I am not even sure when it started. I really don’t care - you shouldn’t either.
Boss Day is a Hallmark holiday: nothing more, nothing less. It is a contrived holiday that leverages the relationship between you and your boss for corporate profit. Why pick one day each year to celebrate this painful daily experience?
Actually it is called “National Boss Day” - it is always on October 16. This year it is on a Monday.
Wow! I know I am excited.
I know the people who read my blog regularly will say something to me on Boss Day. They will say “Hey I read your blog on Boss Day and loved it. I am glad you think it is as stupid as I do.”
Will anyone say “Happy Boss Day?”
Will I get a card?
Do I even want one?
No.
National Boss Day is not a holiday that the Blogging Boss celebrates. I think it is stupid. It is worse than Mother’s Day and Father’s day. Don’t get me wrong. I think honoring your mother and father is very important. I just think it should be something you do all year, not just once a year on a Sunday. Rather than stuffing your mother in the car, taking her out to Cracker Barrel, and saying a lot of things you wouldn’t normally say, spare yourself from the agony.
Get the point? We have invented what I call “Hallmark” holidays. These are days we do things that we would not normally do. These are days that we always forget about. These are holidays that cause us to rifle through the card section at the Hallmark store along with a hundred other people under the spell called “obligation.”
I am a father of four children. I have asked them to celebrate Father’s Day 365 days a year. This requires no cards, trips to a restaurant, or boring days spent with all the relatives.
If you vehemently disagree with me, read on. I have some things you can give your boss on National Boss Day 2006! If you do give your boss a card or a gift on this infamous day, be sure and remind him why you are doing it. He either doesn’t know there is such a “day” or has completely forgotten about it like the rest of us.
Here are some things I think are worth giving:
2. A Book called “How to Claw Your Way to the Top”
If you want to give me something, I would like the:
Deluxe Wine Essentials Red Wine Set Wine Collection Gift
Now this is a gift that could make me celebrate Boss Day!
